Persian Sign Language

Persian Sign Language
Native to	Iran
Language family	unknown
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`psc`
Glottolog	`pers1244`^[1]

Persian Sign Language is the sign language used by Deaf and hard-of-hearing people in Iran. It is a true sign language, unlike the Baghcheban phonetic hand alphabet, which is a form of cued speech.

References

↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Persian Sign Language". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Scholarly literature

Barkoky, Alaa, and Nasrollah M. Charkari. Static hand gesture recognition of Persian sign numbers using thinning method. Multimedia Technology (ICMT), 2011 International Conference on. IEEE, 2011.
Karami, Ali, Bahman Zanj, and Azadeh Kiani Sarkaleh. Persian sign language (PSL) recognition using wavelet transform and neural networks. Expert Systems with Applications 38.3 (2011): 2661-2667.

External links

About.com: Deaf Community - Iran

Languages of Iran

Official languages	Persian

Regional languages	Azerbaijani Kurdish Luri Gilaki Mazanderani Arabic Balochi Talysh Tati Qashqai Turkmen

Minority languages	Armenian Assyrian Circassian Georgian Hebrew

Sign languages	Persian Sign Language

Sign language

By region^[a]

Sign languages by region

Oceania	Australia: Auslan, Warlpiri, Australian Aboriginal Hawaii New Zealand Solomon Islands: Rennellese

Asia	Chinese Philippine Indonesia: Indonesian, Kata Kolok (Benkala, Balinese) India: Alipur, Indo-Pakistani, Naga Israel: Al-Sayyid Bedouin, Ghardaia, Israeli, Kafr Qasem Japan: Amami Oshima, Japanese Korean Malaysia: Malaysian, Penang, Selangor Mongolian Nepal: Ghandruk, Jhankot, Jumla, Nepalese Persian Saudi Arabia: Saudi Singapore Sri Lankan Taiwanese Thailand: Ban Khor, Thai Vietnamese

Africa	Algeria: Algerian, Ghardaia Ghana: Adamorobe, Nanabin Kenyan Mali: Tebul, LaSiMa Nigeria: Bura, Hausa Senegal: Mbour Somalia & Djibouti: Somali South African Tanzanian Ugandan Zambian

Europe	Armenian Austrian Belgium: Flemish, French Belgian British Croatian Danish Dutch Estonian Finnish France: Ghardaia, French, Lyons German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Kosovar Lithuanian Macedonian Northern Ireland Norwegian Polish Portuguese Russian Slovenian Spain: Catalan, Spanish, Valencian Swedish Swiss Turkey: Mardin, Turkish

North America	Plains Sign Talk Canada: American, Maritime, Quebec, Inuit, Plateau Mexico: Chatino, Mayan, Mexican United States: American (Black American), Keresan, Martha's Vineyard, Plateau, Sandy River Valley, Henniker

South America	Argentine Bolivian Brasil: Libras, Ka'apor Chilean Colombia: Colombian, Providence Island Costa Rica: Bribri, Brunca Ecuadorian Guatemalan: Guatemalan, Mayan Honduras Nicaraguan Paraguayan Peruvian Providence Island Salvadoran Uruguayan Venezuelan

International	International Sign (Gestuno) Makaton Monastic Signalong

Language families^[a]

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Indo-Pakistani (List)
Swedish (List)
Arab (List)
Isolates (List)

American Sign Language

Extinct sign languages

Linguistics

Fingerspelling

Writing

Language contact

Media

Films (list)
Television programmes (list)

Persons

Organisations

Miscellaneous

^a Sign-language names reflect the region of origin. Natural sign languages are not related to the spoken language used in the same region. For example, French Sign Language originated in France, but is not related to French.

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